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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 4

The Wisdom of Boyhood Young Art & Old Hector Neil Gunn classified three of his novels as ”wisdom of boyhood”.

The Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a

The Highland Meta-NovelThe Organisation of Neil Gunn’s Novels The title for this piece is borrowed from Christopher Stokoe’s thesis¹, which

A brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they

The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological positions, and power plays,

Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,

“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)

I want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have

The Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions

The man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the